Wendell Willkie

Has the One World Idea's Time Come Again?

by Samuel Zipp

Can remembering the “one world” vision for America’s global role—largely forgotten today ­–­ help us get beyond both America First and the “liberal world order”?

The Conceit of American Indispensability [review]

In his new book, Samuel Zipp Zipp explores the resonance of Willkie’s international ideas through the story of his most quixotic venture.

When Americans Fell in Love with The Ideal of ‘One World’

by Samuel Zipp

In 1943, failed presidential candidate Wendell Willkie advanced a strikingly anti-racist, anti-colonial plan to bring the planet together.

Can the G.O.P. Ever Reclaim Wendell Willkie’s Legacy?

by Thomas Mallon

He ran for President as a business mogul with no political experience, but his similarities with Donald Trump end there.

Wendell Willkie’s 1940 nomination: When party establishments mattered

by George F. Will

It was the establishment that installed Willkie and it was over the objections of conservatives.

Lessons Donald Trump Can Learn from Wendell Willkie

What Trump could learn by studying history.

The Election of 1940 and the Might-Have-Been that Makes One Shudder

by Ronald L. Feinman

What would have happened if Wendell Willkie was elected in 1940.

Before Trump or Fiorina, There Was Wendell Willkie

by Michael Beschloss

Only once in American history has a major political party granted its prize to someone whose principal qualification was to have served as a corporate chief executive.

Wendell Willkie: a forerunner to Donald Trump

by Lewis L. Gould

The crowds in the galleries chanted “We want Willkie,” and the delegates yielded to what seemed an irresistible tide.